I’ve recently started a new role at City, managing the relationship between LEaD’s Educational Technology team and the City Law School (CLS). Just a couple of weeks into the post, I had the pleasure of attending Law’s Teaching and Learning Day event, at the Atkin’s lecture theatre. It was a great opportunity to start getting…Continue Reading A toe in legal waters
On the 30th May, the Learning Resources Center at Kristianstad University in Sweden visited us in Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) as part of a visit to several London Universities. The purpose of the visit was to share practice and experiences of educational development between our departments. We welcomed our guests into B200, introducing our…Continue Reading Kristianstad University, Sweden visited Learning Enhancement and Development and the Library
I recently attended one of the three days of the 9th Conference of the European Association for Teaching Academic Writing, hosted this year by Royal Holloway, University of London. As an Academic Learning Support Tutor, this conference is about as closely related to my work as it gets. As some of the day was…Continue Reading Teaching academic writing: a conference in seven tweets
On Monday 24th April, King’s College London hosted the inaugural King’s Online conference – Unlocking the Future of Higher Education. Anna Wood, Director of King’s Online, opened the event by questioning why Higher Education had been slow to embrace the opportunities offered by technology. She suggested that it was due to lack of investment in…Continue Reading Unlocking the future of Higher Education – King’s Online conference
This is my first blog post for the Department of Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) at City, University of London, having started as Senior Lecturer in Educational Development shortly after Easter. I’m settling in well and have been made to feel very welcome by everyone in LEaD. Last week I attended the first day of…Continue Reading UCISA Spotlight on Digital Capabilities
In April I attended the annual United Kingdom Advising and Tutoring (UKAT) conference at Leeds Trinity University. UKAT is a body of professional practitioners and researchers interested in all aspects of student advising and personal tutoring in Further and Higher Education. What follows are my reflections on the workshops and presentations I attended at the…Continue Reading Learning analytics, personal tutoring and belonging: highlights from the 2017 UKAT conference
As part of the Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group (MELSIG) lunchtime Twitter walk activity, members of staff at City took part in our first Twitter Walk, or Twalk yesterday afternoon. The basic premise was similar to reflective walks that academics may have taken in the medieval times in the cloisters (Latin for enclosure) in universities…Continue Reading Reflections in Time and Twitter: a walk of City’s Learning Spaces
Realising Smartworking, by Nathan Hurley, from the Research and Insight department at Orangebox. Nathan talked about the changes in our workplace, with a focus on activity-based working, looking at increased effectiveness. Rules have changed, it’s about creating connections between people, not furniture. Places should allow us to work collaboratively and privately, Spaces need to promote productivity, as we have to…Continue Reading Realising Smartworking – presentation as part of Clerkenwell Design Week 2017
On Tuesday I went to a talk entitled ‘A Change in the Making’ presented by Gareth Banks, Design Manager at Orangebox. http://www.orangebox.com/knowledge/intelligent_design Firstly, Gareth gave us some context. By 2050, there will be a 10 billion population in the world. We are witnessing an expansion of the middle class economy, with consumer demand becoming unsustainable….Continue Reading A Change in the Making – Future of furniture manufacturing and design in an environmental sense
Measuring Learning Gain: Implications for development, enhancement and evaluation. Keynote speech from Camille Kandiko Howson of King’s College London Camille opened by citing research carried out in the US by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa and published in their book Academically Adrift, which found that many students don’t learn much in college, particularly in the…Continue Reading SEDA Spring Conference 2017 | Measuring Learning Gain